Ghostbuster Turnbull sprays Rudd and Abbott but, to be fair, they’re neither lipids nor limpets
What is a ‘lipid’? And did we ever have one for a PM?
Cutandpaste
A certain politically incorrect diminutive has become patronisingly prehistoric
While women joust over words, the world’s biggest cigarette maker is getting out of tobacco.
In search of the woman behind the woman of the moment, we find a dedicated woman
Part manifesto, part paean, Kirstin Ferguson’s book promotes the potential of women.
It’s like being an octopus hurled at a kayaker by a giant seal when you pay for the ABC
What Aunty needs is the heavy-handed regulation that it’s fond of prescribing for others.
Aunty’s puppies seem to be the only ones who aren’t calling on the chairman to resign
When Tim Flannery talks about mad ideologues, he knows whereof he speaks.
Royal Navy’s James certainly came for a Captain Cook, but he wasn’t in the first XI
The Greens don’t get it and it is a Nationals’ disgrace, but Arthur Phillip is our man.
When Aunty met Larry it was not a happy union, and staff don’t Wiggle about the bush
It’s easy to make fashion sustainable if you are prepared to wear your Armani more than once.
Crime on the table as Vic picks
From rorts to street gangs, Victorians can look forward to a law and order campaign.
Grim Reaper please take subsidies
Does AMP get claims for fire damage from customers who find themselves in Hades?
Credlin calls out press on Abbott
Elsewhere, spiked strawberries may be destroying Australia’s reputation globally.
Climate guru’s fictional fancies
Don’t blame global warming if temperatures rise precipitously at Dr Pachauri’s trial.
ASIC should have kept eyes on banks
First they came for the cartoonists, and other so-called cartoonists cheered them on.
Fauxfax does a little poll dancing
With the backing of the KKK and Hamas, why do people call Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semite?
Western civilisation a risky topic
Edmund Capon has some advice for those who exhort us to be intolerant of prejudice.
All aboard Titanic II with Al Gore
When it comes to finding out the hard way, Mr Palmersaurus looms larger than life.
Where ex-PMs don’t re-Joyce
As politics descends to the vindictiveness of the playground, kids get political about anthem.
Red-hot Greens in Facebook stews
A short guide to politically correct language when talking to eco-friendly pollies.
Gender whispering, coal-phobic teens
The ABC’s Q&A always manages to find someone its dwindling viewers want as PM.
Stop Pyne-ing for parlour games
Did Megabucks Maguire contribute to the Liberal Party’s historic loss in Wagga Wagga?
The rise of campus snowflakes
Author Jonathan Haidt identifies several causes for the emergence of this volatile snowflake culture.
La La lunatics and the Russkies
While Hollywood happily fakes history, the Kremlin makes up fake facts in real time.
Tax his way out of a problem
There are lies, damn lies, there are ABC statistics and there are Bob Woodward quotes.
Careless talk causes harm
With all the money spent on gender bending why are student results going backwards?
First they came for the golliwogs
What’s most hurtful is that these googly-eyed friends of Teddy were awarded prizes.
Stick to Paris targets like France
Jeremy Corbyn offering Jews a lesson in irony would be hilarious if he wasn’t serious.
A ‘toxic culture’ of cliches
Three academics coin a catchy phrase and within a few years everyone is using it.
Why doesn’t Facebook go green?
And why is Western Australia limiting itself to three genders when there are at least 73?
How Wentworth was won
Malcolm Turnbull was fond of political pugilism in streets of Point Piper.
Who gets rent-seeker profits?
The Herald farewells its PM, with his renewables, fine art collection and a large pillow of wealth.
Kevin needs Netflix and chill pill
Did Sydney Uni’s travel writer miss the North Korean prison camps because he was drunk?
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